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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Apple sues Qualcomm for ~$1B, says Qualcomm charged royalties for tech the chip giant didn't invent, retaliated for Apple's cooperation in Korean antitrust case — Apple is suing Qualcomm for roughly $1 billion, saying Qualcomm has been “charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.”
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Qualcomm comments on Apple complaint, says “Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks” on Qualcomm in various jurisdictions around the world — “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is quite clear that Apple's claims are baseless.
| Hudson Hongo / Gizmodo: |
President Trump reportedly trades in his Android phone, believed to be his primary tweeting device, for a Secret Service-approved device — While rising to our nation's highest office is an unparalleled honor, becoming President also involves many personal sacrifices.
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Sources: President Trump will tap sitting GOP FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of net neutrality, to lead the agency — President Donald Trump will tap Ajit Pai to lead the FCC in the new administration, elevating the sitting GOP commissioner to the top spot overseeing … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Some users say Twitter made them follow @POTUS after the transition, even if they blocked, unfollowed, or never followed the account; Dorsey says issue is fixed — A number of Twitter users tonight are claiming their accounts have somehow automatically followed the Twitter accounts, @POTUS …
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Weekly builds of CyanogenMod fork Lineage OS, supporting 80+ Android 6 and 7 devices, begin this weekend; Lineage OS to offer CyanogenMod data migration tools — CyanogenMod has long been the most popular custom ROM, covering a wide array of devices from numerous manufacturers.
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| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Lavabit e-mail service, which shut down in 2013 to avoid court order connected to Snowden investigation, relaunches with features to thwart surveillance — In 2013, Ladar Levison, founder of the encrypted email service Lavabit, took the defiant step of shutting down the company's service rather …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber hires former Google search chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering — Uber's latest hire has a storied and accomplished history in Silicon Valley - Amit Singhal, former Senior Vice President of Search and employee number 176 at Google, has joined the ride-hailing company as SVP of Engineering.
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Viral selfie app Meitu requests permissions like GPS, call, and carrier info that are unrelated to core use, raising questions from security and privacy experts — You've probably seen a Meitu selfie in your Instagram or Facebook feed in the past 24 hours.
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| Jan Willem Aldershoff / Myce.com: |
Microsoft shows popup in Windows 10 to advertise its shopping extension to Chrome users — Microsoft has started to advertise it's Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) extension for Chrome to Windows 10 users. Users of Microsoft's latest operating system now receive a small notification above …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet Capital Partners fund, operational since early 2016, says it reached $1B fundraising target; Rocket Internet committed $140M to the fund — If you thought the problems Rocket Internet has had bringing its portfolio of startups and its business overall into the black …
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VentureBeat, Rocket Internet press releases, PE Hub Blog, The Tech Portal, and FinSMEs. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon just launched virtual ‘Dash’ buttons for one-click buying from the homepage — Just let me live in the warehouse already. — Another day, another attempt by Amazon to make buying something as easy as humanly possible. — The e-commerce leader just unveiled digital versions of its Dash buttons … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
WSJ sources: Samsung investigation finds Galaxy Note7 fires were caused by irregularly sized batteries that didn't properly fit the phone, manufacturing issues — Samsung's official investigation into the cause of widespread faults with the Galaxy Note 7 will blame “irregularly sized” …
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